Fiction

In Our Words: Queer Stories from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Writers is a thoughtfully curated collection of short stories at the intersection of racial and queer identity. Comprising both the renowned and emerging voices of Black, Indigenous,...

Long-listed for the 2018 Man Booker PrizeShort-listed for the 2018 Gordon Burn PrizeShort-listed for the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize Inspired by the real-life murder of a British army soldier by religious fanatics, Guy Gunaratne's In Our Mad and Furious City...

With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm,...

Being in love with the plug isn't always easy, especially when that love is forbidden. Best friends, Purple and Breelynn, know that all too well. After secretly being in a relationship for the past two years with Em-kay, Purple's brother, Breelynn has...

Qua loves Wynner. Wynner loves Qua. Easy enough, right? But Wynner comes with two brothers who can't stand Qua with their baby sister. In spite of it all, Qua grabs Wynner's hand and marries her at the courthouse.Flash forward five years, and Qua has...

Qua loves Wynner. Wynner loves Qua. Easy enough, right? But Wynner comes with two brothers who can't stand Qua with their baby sister. In spite of it all, with faith, his word, and his love, Qua grabs Wynner's hand and marries her at the courthouse...

Don't count on forever . . . Beautiful and educated, with just enough Atlanta street smarts to give her a sexy edge, hood princess Danna Mendoza has a dream life. Her temporary bodyguard-turned-undercover lover Don makes it complete. As her father's best...

A controversial new novel from critically acclaimed Essence bestseller Reginald L. Hall explores the attraction of dating a bad boy from an entirely new angle. During college, Juan Jiles fell in love with Darrell, who convinced Juan to help him rob one...

When what was supposed to be a fun date night opens Pandora's Box, Nia is left feeling betrayed. In this suspenseful and romantic series from Nako, love has been put to the ultimate test. Can the past be forgiven? Nia Hudson, fashion powerhouse and...

Short fiction about the female experience from the New York Times best-selling author of The Color Purple, "one of the best American writers of today" (Washington Post).Here are stories of women traveling with the weight of broken dreams, with kids in...

When Kate's dearest childhood friend returns to warn her of danger, she's not happy to see him. After all, Cor isn't really a monster-slaying master swordsman from another world. He's a hallucination. Kate spent years in a mental ward for believing...

Two newly single, Black, queer, and socially aware men have packed up to start again--in love, career, and life--in the West Hollywood neighborhood of LA.Zaire James, on the cusp of 30, has decided marriage isn't all it's cracked up to be. Despite...

When Justine Crandall walks in on her husband of six years with another woman, she flees their home, declaring he'll never see her again. And her wish almost comes true when his car careens off a cliff in his pursuit of her. Hours later she finds herself...

"In and Out" is a gripping story that follows the journey of two African American stick-up men who seek to escape poverty and the related realities of life on the depleted, mean streets of New Jersey's inner city. What they find is that what's done in...

Janole was recently reunited with Wallace, her husband of 25 years, who disappeared amid a mysterious scandal leaving Janole devastated. Only after being reunited did Janole learn the disturbing truth about Wallace's disappearance. Janole is eager to...

Mariea's dreams are no longer deferred. Mariea has come a long way away from the physical, verbal, and mental abuses that she had gone through. She had gotten to a place where she can now tell others since no one had to consider caring about her...